<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Overmits het assureren van scheepen en koopmanschapen soo voor de gevaren van de zee, van die van oorlog als zeeroveryen, noodsakelijk is voor koophandel en zeevaard, en dat men siet in Engeland een maatschappy daar toe opgeregt en self onlangs tot Rotterdam, om door een groot samengevoegd kapitaal, die geene die sig willen assureren volstrektelyk gerust te stellen, ... : manuscript</dc:title><dc:date>1720.</dc:date><dc:language>dut</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript, in unidentified hand, containing a proposal for the creation of pooled capital or "een groot samengevoegd kapitaal" in the city of Delft in the year 1720, in imitation of the city of the Rotterdam which had just instituted the same capital in its city. The proposal is followed by a series of sixteen terms of subscription or "conditien." Those who wish to are called to sign up on July 11, 1720 at 9 am in Delft</dc:description><dc:description>In Dutch.</dc:description><dc:description>Title from heading.</dc:description><dc:description>Layout: single column of varying length.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: quarter bound with vellum and printed paper (heavily damaged) over paper pasteboard.</dc:description><dc:description>Volume contains 57 printed and 6 manuscript items bound together under title page: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid. This manuscript is the second manuscript in the volume and number 8 of 63 items bound together.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>